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Ebenezer MacIntosh and the Stamp Act
Summary: The story of Ebenezer MacIntosh, a colonial Boston shoemaker who led a series of protests against the British Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act in 1765. One of the first colonists to speak out against unfair taxation by the British, MacIntosh should be considered a hero who helped to spur the movement toward American independence.
On March 22, 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act declared all paper documents null and void unless they had a British tax stamp. This was the first direct tax placed upon the colonists of America. On November 1, 1765 the Stamp Act went into effect, thus outraging the colonists and causing them to take serious action. The Stamp Act denied colonists one of their most precious rights, the right to trial by jury. The Stamp Act affected the everyday life of all the colonists. Although some of the colonists learned to accept the Stamp Act the patriots of the colonies were the angriest people of all.
Ebenezer MacIntosh was a Boston shoemaker who was a leader that urban commoners looked up to. Ebenezer was just one of the angry patriots that Parliament had pushed too far. He then decided it was time to take matters into his own hands...
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